Motivational Quotes

Failure

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win